yeah, pretty much anything that pops in my head.

IKE

Fortunately my apartment in Beaumont was spared damage. I don’t know exactly when the power came back on, but it is on now. I came back to stay today. On Tuesday, when I came to check on things, a few people’s apartments lost shingles or had lost pieces of the hardiplank siding. A few sliding glass doors were broken.

My fiance’s parent’s house also was spared. It looks like one more foot of water, and their house would have had damage. They live kind of between Bridge City, TX and Orange, TX. If you watched CNN you would have seen Anderson Cooper wearing waders and standing waist high in a ditch just down the road from their house. Text message photos of standing water at a nearby intersection had us thinking there was no way their house didn’t have water in it. They were fortunate. Almost all the people who live in Bridge City have lost everything. Even if they can salvage the frame of their home, their clothes, kid’s toys, 2nd cars, memories, and so much more have been destroyed. We drove through a few days ago and it was absolutely horrible. Marsh mud & reeds, as well as dead fish, snakes, alligators, hogs and cows were seen in the roads. Some people were already back, purging their homes from all ruined belongings, and trying to salvage what they could. I can’t even imagine what that feels like to lose everything.

Houston has been hit pretty bad too. My parents are still without power after a week.